Chapter 3: A More Perfect Union

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Across
  1. 2. Powerful speaker and writer that wrote the final draft of the Constitution
  2. 3. English philosopher who believed that all people have natural rights, that include rights to life, liberty, and property
  3. 5. Headed by the president who carries out the nation’s laws, serves as commander in chief of the armed forces, and conducts relations with other countries
  4. 9. The first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory in 1803
  5. 10. Movement in the 1700s that promoted knowledge, reason, and science as the means to improve society
  6. 11. Freeing of individual enslaved persons
  7. 12. People who supported the new US Constitution; sharing equal power between the national and state governments
  8. 13. Stops a branch of the government from taking too much power by giving the different branches check/limits the other branches
  9. 14. Bill of rights made by Britain and helped give the idea that the Constitution needed its own bill of rights
  10. 20. Virginia planter called the Father of the Constitution because he is the author of the basic plan of government that the Constitution adopted; worked with Alexander Hamilton, John Jay,George Washington, and Edmund Randolph
  11. 21. French writer who declared that the powers of government should be separated to keep any person or group from gaining too much power in his book The Spirit of Laws (1748)
  12. 23. Consisted of the legislative branch, executive branch, and judicial branch
  13. 24. Period when economic activity slowed and unemployment increased
  14. 25. Philadelphia merchant and first person to be the head of the Department of Finance in the US
  15. 26. Each enslaved person equals to ⅗ person, so every 5 slaves equaled 3 free persons
  16. 27. Court system and interprets laws for each situation
Down
  1. 1. Farmer and former Continental Army Captain; bunch of farmers who rebelled so the courts in Massachusetts were closed and couldn’t confiscate farmer’s land
  2. 4. First US constitution that made a one house government, called Congress, that could conduct foreign affairs, maintain armed forces, borrow money, & issue currency
  3. 6. Created by the Northwest Ordinance and made of lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
  4. 7. Created the Northwest Territory and provided a democratic model for expansion
  5. 8. A legislative that consists of two houses or parts
  6. 15. Suggested by Roger Sherman to fix the differences the delegates were having
  7. 16. Protection toward individual freedoms; based on Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights
  8. 17. Opposed the ratification of the new constitution because it had no bill of rights and they feared a strong central government
  9. 18. Called for a two house legislature(lower house chosen by the people, higher house chosen by the lower house, and members of each house were proportional to the population of the state), a chief executive chosen by the legislature, and a court system
  10. 19. Lived in Pennsylvania and made the first American antislavery society in 1774
  11. 22. Lawmaking branch; divided into two houses (House of Representatives and Senate)